While the question answering styled tasks have been intensively studied in the NLP community [1]}, [2]}, [3]}, [4]}, the verification styled MRC task actually receives much less attention.
Here, as indicated in the Gaokao Instructionshttp://gaokao.neea.edu.cn/, the abilities of gathering multiple evidence pieces from long articles, distilling supportive evidence, and making decisions accordingly by capturing the subtle
difference among similar text pieces (i.e., choices), are necessary skills for Chinese Language learning.
This type of questions actually provides an ideal test-bed for natural language understanding research.
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